A new exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the enduring appeal of divination

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"extraordinary sense of a club imploding": schön wär's!

the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "depressed" to "bright"

How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging

Vor 20 Jahren noch ein Grund für's Krankenhaus, heute und spätestens seit der Pandemie plötzlich ein Teil des "Lifestyle"

The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

Satirical news outlet purchases media platform run by Alex Jones at a court-ordered auction

A hate machine’: St Pauli become first major football club to leave X

which showed a link to wicked.com, instead of wickedmovie.com. The address was printed on boxes for Glinda and Elphaba dolls, the main characters in Wicked, played in the film adaptation by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

open source map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage

Gates-washing the future

A new Netflix series continues the effort to launder Bill Gates’ reputation

high carbon emissions of the world’s richest 1% are worsening hunger, poverty and excess deaths, a report has found

Take me to a useless website please

amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula.

Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland

5 types of AI personalities in the workplace:
“The Maximalist” who regularly uses AI on their jobs; “The Underground" who covertly uses AI; “The Rebel,” who abhors AI; “The Superfan” who is excited about AI but still hasn't used it; and “The Observer" who is taking a wait-and-see approach

the blogosphere, and the public social media landscape, represented the spirit of this civilizational chapter in a much truer way than old media

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Karaoke has its origins in a 60-year-old car stereo

haha, heute Retro